International Journal of Structural Integrity: Volume 10 Issue 1

Preliminary study on tuned mass damper utilization to reduce wave-induced vibration of jacket platforms

Faridah Zahra, Rildova Rildova, Sri Murti Adiyastuti, Fajrin Falahi

During its operation, vibrations in jacket platform due to high operational and environmental loads could reduce its productivity and endanger its safety. Tuned mass damper (TMD…

Fatigue life assessment of crankshaft with increased horsepower

Jalal Fathi Sola, Farhad Alinejad, Foad Rahimidehgolan, Amirreza Niazmand

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the fatigue life of the crankshaft in an engine with increased horsepower.

Fatigue damage analysis of steel components subjected to earthquake loadings

Chien-Yuan Hou, Yung-Feng Lee, Yen-Hao Peng

Examination of steel moment resisting frames after the 1994 Northridge earthquake showed fatigue cracks presented in the beam–column connections of the frames. These observations…

Seismic assessment of RC column under seismic loads

Charis Apostolopoulos, Argyro Drakakaki, Maria Basdeki

As it is widely known, corrosion is a major deterioration factor for structures which are located on coastal areas. Corrosion has a great impact on both the durability and seismic…

Prediction of pipeline collapse due to hydrostatic pressure

Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, Evangelos Gavalas, Spyros Papaefthymiou

The purpose of this paper is to present a finite element method (FEM) model that predicts the collapse pressure of the majority of the gas/petroleum pipelines worldwide. More…

Effect of medium carbon steel microstructure on tensile strength and fatigue crack growth

Blaoui Mohammed Mossaab, Mokhtar Zemri, Mustapha Arab

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of medium carbon steel microstructure on the tensile strength and fatigue crack growth (FCG) behavior.

Theoretical and numerical analysis of stress and stress intensity factor in bi-material

Hamid Hamli Benzahar

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate theoretically and numerically the stress and stress intensity factor (SIF) at the time of propagation of the crack in bi-material. The…

Temperature analysis of CFG pile composite foundation in high latitudes and low altitude island permafrost

Jinliang Liu, Yanmin Jia

Cement fly ash gravel (CFG) pile composite foundation is an effective and economic foundation treatment approach, which is significant to build foundation, subgrade construction…

Structural damage localization through multi-channel empirical mode decomposition

Mehdi Salehi, Mansour Azami

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new structural damage detection technique based on multi-channel empirical mode decomposition (MEMD) of vibrational response data.

Accelerating the fatigue analysis based on strain signal using Hilbert–Huang transform

Nadia Nurnajihah M. Nasir, Salvinder Singh, Shahrum Abdullah, Sallehuddin Mohamed Haris

The purpose of this paper is to present the application of Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) for fatigue damage feature characterisation in the time–frequency domain based on strain…